The ICD

Question 1

What is the ICD?

Answer 1

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. Produced by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The current version is the ICD-10 and ICD-11

Question 2

What language is the ICD written in ?

Answer 2

It is multilingual and freely available for everyone

Question 3

Why is it a postitive that the ICD is multilingual?

Answer 3

It is good because data collected from other countries can be compared

Question 4

What is chapter 5 of the ICD-5 entitled?

Answer 4

Mental and Behavioual Disorders

Question 5

What does each disorder have in the ICD-5?

Answer 5

A code

Question 6

What study support the ICD-5?

Answer 6

Gian Galeazzi
Arranged for 2 researchers to conduct a joint interview to assess 100 consecutive clients for psychosomatic symptoms.
The kappa calues ranged from 0.69 to 0.97 showing very high agreement